"Now--I must remind you that I'm taking a big chance in doing this.
If you make a noise, I shall treat you as any desperate man would
treat you!" There was a look in his eyes which clinched the matter.
Immediately he disappeared in the direction of the nearest cleaners.
Reblong heard sounds of struggling from time to time; and evidently
he implicitly believed that Fort would take vengeance upon him if he
called for help; for he kept perfectly quiet. After perhaps twenty
minutes the athlete returned, breathing heavily, but happy.
"The last one almost spilled my beans," said he--to use the
expression Smith employed. "He happened to see me shutting another
one into a closet, and jumped me from behind. I had to lay him out."
Reblong must have looked alarmed. "Oh, no harm done. They'll all
live to tell about it for the next twenty years."
Next he made certain adjustments in the engine-room mechanism. Then
he went to the telephone, and located the man in charge of the
depot.
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